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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1970

April 1970

 
  • Frederick Bock
  • Thom Gunn
  • David Hilton
  • Hannah Kahn
  • Sandra McPherson
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THE MESSENGER

By Thom Gunn
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THE WONG'S SHORT VISIT

By David Zaiss
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VOYAGINGS

By Paul Ramsey
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Table of Contents

  • Thom Gunn
    • THE MESSENGER
    • BEING BORN
    • THE DISCOVERY OF THE PACIFIC
  • David Zaiss
    • THE WONG'S SHORT VISIT
    • TOO MANY DUCKS
    • IN THE WHITE GIANT'S MOUTH
    • THE SPECIAL DELIVERY OF CELEBRANTS
    • PERFECT CIRCLES
  • Paul Ramsey
    • VOYAGINGS
  • David Hilton
    • THE EXCURSIONISTS
    • MAKING LOVE
    • THE FURNISHED COTTAGE
    • ABOVE PASSION
    • SALTY DOG ASLEEP
  • Steven Orlen
    • NOVEMBER
  • Hannah Kahn
    • NOTATION IN TIME
    • WITHOUT COMPASS
  • Frederick Bock
    • MISTAKEN CATS
  • James Radlow
    • NEWS OF THE MYSTERIES
  • Michael Mott
    • ISLANDERS, INLANDERS
    • THE DANAIDES
    • PASTORAL
  • Sandra McPherson
    • SOME MEANINGS OF SILENCE
    • ESCHATOLOGY
    • HIS BODY
Contents
  • Howard Nemerov
    • Naked Poetry: Recent American Poetry in Open Forms (Ed. by Stephen Berg and Robert Mezey)
  • Steven M. L. Aronson
    • Scattered Returns, by L. E. Sissman
  • Richard Howard
    • Essays of Four Decades, by Allen Tate
  • Michael Mott
    • A Skull in Salop and Other Poems and Poems & Poets, by Geoffrey Grigson
  • David Zaiss
    • Collected Poems 1968, by Roy Fisher
    • Lost and Found, by Raymond Souster
    • The Odes, by Charles Boer
    • A Choice in Attitudes, by Gray Burr
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Steven M. L. Aronson
  • Frederick Bock
  • Thom Gunn
  • David Hilton
  • Richard Howard
  • Hannah Kahn
  • Sandra McPherson
  • Michael Mott
  • Howard Nemerov
  • Steven Orlen
  • James Radlow
  • Paul Ramsey
  • David Zaiss
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